US Patent Issued to The Nisshin OilliO Group on June 30 for "Method for producing powdered oil and/or fat composition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,114, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Nisshin OilliO Group Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing powdered oil and/or fat composition" was invented by Seiya Takeguchi (Yokohama, Japan) and Tetsuro Iwasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for producing powdered oil and/or fat composition containing an oil and/or fat component that includes one or more XXX-type triglycerides with specific fatty acid residue X, the method comprising (a) preparing solid oil and/or fat composition raw material containing XXX-type triglycerides; (b) heating the solid oil and/or fat composition raw material obtained in (a) at a...